At 11:15 PM -0500 1999/11/09, Chris Faherty wrote:
>Jim Schram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 99/11/09 10:14 pm:
>
> > Please note the autoOffChr (now called vchrAutoOff) and powerOffChr (now
> > called vchrPowerOff) keyDown events will also have their command key bit
> > set in the modifiers field, to distinguish these "virtual" keys from
> > "actual" keys. This tidbit is important as we move into the unicode world.
>
>I just noticed that PalmOS3.3 acts a bit differently than the earlier ones at
>powerdown/powerup. Instead of hardPowerChr being the last event prior to
>sleep when pressing the power button, OS3.3 has a character 0x11e - what
>exactly is this char?
That's the vchrPowerOff char. It's sent by SysHandleEvent's processing of the
vchrAutoOff event, to indicate it's now time to actually power off. The vchrAutoOff
events are (and always have been) considered only "requests" to power off, not
"demands" to power off. Sometimes the system ignores the vchrAutoOff events, but it
never ignores the vchrPowerOff event (or at least, it shouldn't! ;o)
Regards,
Jim Schram
3Com/Palm Computing
Partner Engineering
